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This Week's Best Clown Headlines from around the worldClowns to help ailing kids in Italy - Italian Equal Opportunity Minister Mara Carafagna said Friday clowns will be used to lift the spirits of sick children in the country's hospitals
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Carafagna said the $2 million plan will involve using an estimated 35 groups of Clown Doctors to brighten the days of young patients throughout Italy through hospital visits, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Balloons and Clowns and Toys Oh My! Children’s Entertainer Business Cards - Whether you are a juggler, a professional clown, puppeteer or face paint artist, a children’s entertainer needs business cards as much as anyone else. The entertainer’s business card should invoke fun times, professional skills and affordable rates. Recession tough on birthday party clowns - Ooopsy the Clown threw in a bubble machine for the monkey-themed party marking Nicholas Castillo's first birthday. She usually charges extra, but what's a clown to do in a recession that has some parents throwing less extravagant celebrations for their kids?
Mexico clowns' holy parade - Hundreds of Mexican clowns dance and sing through the streets of Mexico City in their annual tribute to the country's patron saint, the Virgin of Guadalupe. Terrifying clown commercials - This one has become a bit of a YouTube phenomenon. If there is a CLIO category for best actor, the clown in this commercial deserves it for his expression of pure, sustained rage. Clowning for Christ – dos and don'ts - Clowns may be doing their thing for religion, but are they scaring the children? The show must go on - These are trying times. But a circus remains a huge enterprise - A young Mongolian girl, dressed in a short white dress, climbs all the way to the top of a rope and swings her body to and fro. She looks like an angel performing a ballet mid-air. Compared with her, the Indian trapeze artistes look undertrained and outdated, especially because of their age-old “cabaret” costumes. Shrine gives circus tickets - Five thousand Topeka-area children who might have missed this year's Arab Shrine Circus will get to go, thanks to the generosity of the Shriners. Child birthday parties can be a stressful affair - Something amazing happens when you become a parent.
You are introduced to the joys of birthday parties, but they are not like the birthday parties that you were previously accustomed to. We are talking about birthday parties that include balloons, clowns, themes, huge cakes and ice cream. You name it, and it’s probably there.
Five clowns central to Danish Play - Turning the tragic into the hilarious is what performing Shakespeare’s Danish Play is all about for a Company of Fools.
The Fall (and Rise) of Clowns in Advertising: Part 1 - Clowns scare me. "Coulrophobia" is the term: extreme fear of clowns.
I don’t think I always felt this way... At some point in my life something happened (probably something that I’m repressing and will carry on to my kids in some horrible Movie-of-the-Week manner). Project Burma, 2010 - his winter France, Belgium, Sweden and the US CWB groups are sending performances to Myanmar. Moshe Cohen will focus on working in Children’s Training Schools (residential institutions), in Yangon and in Mandalay. He will be offering performances and furthering last year’s training with Activity Facilitators. These Clowns are Funny – Some of the Time - And there's a special brand of rodeo performers right in the middle of the action. They're bullfighters, lifesavers and comedians, all in one. Clowning around from Christchurch to Kabul - A New York husband and wife busking team fell in love amid the rubble of Afghanistan.
Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone, who are performing as the Acrobuffos in New Zealand for the first time at the World Buskers Festival in Christchurch, met while teaching in the war-torn country in 2003. Helping people laugh away their woes, all around the world - She may not have one best-dressed at the fashion show, but her goofy get-up has been around the world, as one well-traveled clown pays a visit to Lewiston.
The Festival of Trees welcomed Oochee the Clown, otherwise known as Maureen Mould. Mould has spent the last 12 years making people laugh after a tragedy of her own. Buffooning Around with Trilby Jeeves - Just a gang of those pesky Buffoons, trained by Trilby Jeeves, who, after all, cannot be held responsible for what people do once they leave her workshops. Accidental clown sees career as a calling now - Jeff Leake, 50, did not set out to be a clown -- in fact, he fought against it until his boss at the time forced it on him.
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He had been between jobs and ended up cooking pizzas at a local pizzeria until he could find something that paid more.
Leake knew how to make balloon giraffes, dachshunds and mice. He said his boss was begging, bribing and finally threatening his job if he didn’t entertain customers.
Meet 16-year-old Christopher the Magician - To those who know him best, he's Frank Galdieri. To those only famliar with his on-stage trickery, he's Christopher.
Sound a bit confusing? It's really rather simple.
While most kids his age are stocking shelves or flipping burgers, the 16-year-old Keyser Valley resident is busy earning his spending money on the local magic circuit, performing under the moniker Christopher the Magician. Magic man performs in England - Nathan Kepner spent his New Year's Eve miles from home.
The Carlisle native performed magic tricks in one of the world's most renowned and prestigious venues for a magician to perform: The Centre for the Magic Arts in London.
For musicians, typically the big goal is to play New York's Apollo Theater or Carnegie Hall; for actors it's Broadway. But for magicians, it's The Centre of the Magic Arts. Best magicians wander into Myrtle Beach area - Award-winning magicians will perform a variety of show-stopping tricks and magical feats during "Champions of Magic" Saturday at the Palace Theatre.
The show wraps up Magic at the Beach, a three-day magic convention organized by Roman LePree and David Tanner. Although the two aren't affiliated with a magic organization, they are both active in local magic clubs. Where's the party? - Lately I notice that banks are no longer advertising with the standard clichés on why families should start saving early. This one caught my eye and made sense:“Before you know it, the years would have flown. And it will be your child's second birthday. Will you be prepared for her birthday party? Or higher education bills when your precious one graduates from Cuddly Crawlers to Toddler's Land? Start now! Save for her essentials in life, right from the day you forget where you kept your birth control pills”. 
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